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Accreditation 101: A Toolkit for Accreditation Professionals

Accreditation is a complex topic with multiple branches, specialties, and nuances. New accreditation specialists often come from disparate backgrounds, with huge variations in the type and amount of training (if any) they had before accepting their new role. There’s a steep learning curve involved, with countless terms, organizations, and processes to understand and no clear method to go about it.

Accreditation 101: A Toolkit for Accreditation Professionals provides a road map to the new specialist’s education and orientation, with plenty of guidance along the way. Written in clear, accessible terms, Accreditation 101 comes with downloadable tools, mock tracers, timely updates, newsletter articles, and educational chapters that will aid everyone in your department.

This online toolkit is ideal not only for someone new to the specialist role, but also as an orientation resource that leadership can provide to incoming specialists with prior experience.

This toolkit will benefit leadership by being:

Affordable and reusable: Specialist positions are sometimes fraught with high turnover. This resource makes sure your new hires get up to speed quickly, without breaking your budget.

Simple to access: All parts of this toolkit can be found in a single, easy-to-navigate online resource.

Comprehensive: The resources in this toolkit cover not only accreditation for CMS, but The Joint Commission, DNV, and other accrediting organizations.

A true beginner’s resource: All documents in the toolkit are written in clear, simple language, with no assumptions about what the reader already knows.